creative writing for lower seniors

1. What could be happening or has
already happened?
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2. REMEMBER
TO to help
Use the 4 W’s + an H
you get started.
HOOK
Who? Where?
What? When? How?
YOUR READER!
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3. What do they do about the bottle?
What could be inside?
How are you going to develop your character?
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4. What happens that is
unexpected?
Are they able to reach the
bottle?
-open it?
-read the message?
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5. What happens as a result of the dilemma?
Do they need a boat to chase it?
Is it a map?
Can they read what’s inside?
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6. How does everything end?
Could they have a flashback – remember something that help’s them?
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7. CHECKLIST
•Have you used 5 paragraphs?
•Does your opening ‘hook’ the reader?
•Did you use powerful verbs?
•Have you included a flashback?
•Is your punctuation varied and accurate?
•Do your characters spring to life?
•Have you ‘garbled’? (If so go back and change it!)
•Did you finish in the allotted time?
•Are you pleased with the end result?
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